Bricolage
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Jennifer Gidley:
"The term bricolage, is attributed to anthropologist, Claude Levi- Strauss by educational researchers seeking a postformal methodology to account for such factors as complexity, creativity, and multidimensionality (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005; Kincheloe & Berry, 2004). More recently, evolutionary theorists have used bricolage as a metaphor for representing evolutionary processes that are beyond reductionism, and accident. The tinkering involved in evolutionary bricolage embraces biological principles of self-organization, emergence and creativity (Montuori, Combs, & Richards, 2004; Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1993). Interestingly, from a post-structuralist perspective, Derrida also discusses the value of Levi-Strauss’s use of bricolage in critical analysis of all discourse (Derrida, 2001)."